Business Intelligence Options Made Simple
More and more of Microsoft’s ISV partners are telling us that their customers across industries are striving to get value from their data. In financial services, they want to do things like optimize portfolios, identify potential business risks and opportunities, and understand best business unit performance. In Retail, they want a corporate-wide view of the business to optimize inventory levels, and provide faster and more accurate reporting to enable better business decisions. In Manufacturing, they want to streamline supply chain operations, optimize relationships with partners and customers, understand their best performing divisions and control costs. These are just samples – there are many other industry applications for Business Intelligence (BI). If you are an independent software vendor (ISV) who serves these or other industries, you probably want to add BI to your software portfolio, if you haven’t already done so. ISVs have many options for addressing BI needs – you can: Invest in developing your own BI technologies with your favorite set of dev tools Form a partnership with a 3 rd party who already has BI tools that can work side-by-side with your software Adopt a hybrid approach, leveraging extensible BI code and customizing it to your specific application needs With Option 1, you could potentially maximize your revenue, but would also likely maximize your costs. You could have the most control over the way your code is written, but would potentially be writing “plumbing” code that is not core to your business and might have a steep learning curve
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Business Intelligence Options Made Simple
